Host Plant Resistance to Insects

by Khush Panda and Niranjan Panda

The overuse and misuse of insecticides some four decades ago created major environmental problems and was followed by the development of an 'integrated pest management' approach to crop pests. This approach utilizes a combination of host plant resistance and cultural, biological and chemical control methods. Crop improvement programs emphasize the breeding of crop varieties with multiple resistance to pests, and resistant varieties developed in recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851989632
• ISBN13: 9780851989631
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages